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by mirdaki 341 days ago
This article (https://xeiaso.net/blog/paranoid-nixos-2021-07-18/) walks through a lot of the steps I've done on all my NixOS systems

As for Nextcloud vs a restic server, Nextcloud is heavier, but I do benefit from it's extra features (like Calendar and Contact management) as well as use a couple of apps (Memories for photos is quite nice). Plus it's much more family friendly, which was a core requirement for my setup

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As you said, everybody will have their own approach. For me, setting up a dedicated firewall to protect the soft underbelly of my less tech savvy family computers was the primary motivation for starting a home lab. I could not imagine a network architecture without it.